Education ClassRoom/Previous Logs/OOo svn migration
[17:00] <ericb2> blauwal: let's start ?
[17:00] <blauwal> ericb2: yes, let's start
[17:00] <ericb2> blauwal: thanks a lot for accepting to be there :)
[17:00] <blauwal> Thank you for the invitation Eric
[17:00] <ericb2> blauwal: you're welcome !
[17:00] * fardad is all ears (eyes)!
[17:01] <blauwal> I'm going to say a bit about the OOo subversion migration
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[17:01] <blauwal> I've prepared a (very) few slights and linked them to the eduction page in the Wiki
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[17:02] Balise blauwal
[17:02] <blauwal> I'm a lousy typist, so please bear with me
[17:02] <ericb2> blauwal: :)
[17:02] <blauwal> CVS is aging as you all know and we got a lot of pressure to work with something better
[17:03] <ericb2> The link : http://tools.openoffice.org/scm_migration/subversion_migration.pdf
[17:03] <blauwal> We had a long discussion about what to use, a DSCM or Subversion
[17:03] <blauwal> We evaluated a number of DSCM and found them all lacking in one aspect or another, so we finally choosed SVN
[17:04] <blauwal> but we'll keep the eyes open and reevaluate the DSCMs from time to time
[17:04] <blauwal> 1) slide
[17:05] <blauwal> The CVS server on CN is not exactly known as the fastest one so we made sure that our new server is fast.
[17:05] <blauwal> It should never be a bottleneck.
[17:06] <blauwal> We hope that the 4 CPU 8 cores 64 GB should suffice for a time
[17:06] <blauwal> The network connectivity is also quite good, but can't be really controlled by us, of course. The server is located in Las vegas
[17:07] <blauwal> Over time we'll probably add a few services on that machine, the first one will be OpenGrok, a fast indexer and LXR replacement
[17:08] <blauwal> We've got a backup server in case something goes seriously wrong. We hope that we can achieve a pretty good reliance with this setup.
[17:08] <blauwal> next slide ...
[17:09] <blauwal> One of the critical features we need from a SCM system is merge tracking. Here do the DSCMs (mercurial, git, bazaar) really shine, becuase mergetracking is kind of immanent in them
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[17:10] <blauwal> Subversion introduced merge tracking with Subversion 1.5, so we really need to use 1.5 SVN clients
[17:10] <blauwal> Best is to always use the latest one (1.5.2 at the moment)
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[17:11] <blauwal> Branching and tagging is implemented in Subversion as "paths" into the repository. Thus the repository layout deserves a few word.
